Vampire Winter and Vampire Halloween are going to be coming out on Affect3D.com March 4th, separately, and together as a bundle! So in anticipation of the release, I did some tinkering on both products and upgraded the code at bit.

Both should be more robust, more compatible with newer operating systems, and most importantly, FULLSCREEN mode actually works! So whatever size or shape of monitor you have, the image should scale correctly, without distortion.

I haven’t made a patch yet, but your download links are good for 30 days, so if you got Vampire Winter lately, go back to your purchase email from BMT Micro and re-download it to get the updated file. Anyone who purchases it from now on, or on Affect3D will get the newer version. If you haven’t had trouble with it and your screen is already 16:9 widescreen, the upgrade won’t really do much for you, so in that case you don’t really need it.

Reminder: If you pre-ordered SFK5, just email me (galaxy at galaxypink.com) and request a discount code to get Vampire Winter as a free bonus product! I’ll be sending those codes out manually in the next week or two, but if you email me I’ll get you one right away. ^_^

As for Vampire Halloween, anyone who purchases it from now on will get the upgraded version. For the old version, I’ll try and put together a free downloadable patch in the next couple of weeks, but I’ve got a lot on my plate right now! I don’t think it’s possible to mass refresh/resend everyone’s download links for it. I think someone over at my billing company would have to do it manually… OH! Here’s how I can do it for the time being: If you’ve got Vampire Halloween already, send me an email, and I’ll give you a coupon code to just “buy” it again for free, that way you’ll get a fresh download link for the new version – if anyone’s clamoring for it before I get a chance to make a patch.

Speaking of things on my plate, you’ve been probably wondering what that glorious rump is all about! That leads us to an overwhelming question…

This is a full 1080 HD wallpaper by the way, so click on it to get the large version.

Question: Should SFK5 scenes be widescreen?

If so, I’d have to redo SFK5:The Vampires, and create a patch for everyone who already has it, and that’s all a big pain in the ass… But all the other SFK5 scenes are still ahead of me, and I don’t mind re-rendering what I’ve done so far… But then SFK5 wouldn’t match previous products. But does that matter? These scenes would be beautiful in 720 HD widescreen like Vampire Winter, and I’ve already decided to make SFK6 in widescreen anyway. What do you guys think?

Now, back to what’s truly important. That image is a better introduction to Seline Orem than I ever gave in SFK1, as she is clearly about to say something along the lines of, “Did you really have to bring your boyfriend, sis?” and then commence the tomb-robbing thievery she’s best at.

Of course, little do they know they have competition for the treasure secreted in the ancient burial room up ahead:

Everybody remembers this cheerful trio!

This is the SFK5 scene I’m working on now – a scene which will live in infamy as the one in which “futa-on-man” is an option. IT’S ONLY AN OPTION! That means I’m doing two versions of the scene: one where that feckless minstrel gets his comeuppance (or comeupthebuttance) from Aleris Lin, and possibly Karista the elf mage, and another one in which he gets knocked out and no one who hates the idea of futa-on-man will be scarred for life.

I built up a lot of momentum working on Vampire Winter, and I’m going to try and finish this new scene by the end of March! Believe it when you see it though. I understand.

After that, I’ll get back to work on the Shay scene I was working on before. I had gotten bogged down with some technical problems on that scene I had no idea how to solve, so I went to work on this one instead, had the same problems, solved them, and then solved them for the Shay scene too, so that one should go quicker once I get back to it.

I’m thrilled to be making quicker progress! I was serious about that New Year’s resolution, you guys. Year of the Ram, I’m going to ram my way through to the end of SFK5 this year… or else I’ll give everybody their money back and go live in a cave. >_<

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I’d say it’s about time the men got to see some action. Why do they always have to be the ones doing the fucking and never the ones getting fucked? :/

As for SFK5, whatever is easiest for you is fine with me. HD is HD, and it doesn’t really matter if the extra space is at the top and bottom or at the left and right. I’m sure it’ll look great either way ^_^

Regarding Vampire Winter, I downloaded the updated version, but when I tried to run it, I got an error from Ren’Py:
「I’m sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.
While loading the script.
ImportError: No module named sl2.slast」
(I use Linux, so I run SFK through Ren’Py instead of running the .exe directly)
After upgrading Ren’Py from version 6.15.7 to the latest version (6.18.3), everything worked perfectly. So all is okay really, just thought you might want to know ^_^

Oh, that makes sense. The new version was compiled in Renpy 6.18.3 – which is why it works so well. If a lot of people wanted Linux versions I could make those available, but hardly anyone has ever mentioned it. ^_^”

And yeah, people have been asking me since about 2008 to do futa-on-man scenes, and for equally as long, people have been asking me to please never ever do that. So, finally I have a chance to compromise.

Glad you’re making progress Galaxy, not to mention looking out for the fans with free upgrades to your stuff. To answer your question, I’m 100% on the bigger is better bandwagon. The bigger/higher resolution the better it is for the viewing audience. I’ve had a 1920 x 1080 monitor for 8 years now so the less the images have to stretch the better!

I’m definitely leaning that way… though I’m not really looking forward to re-shooting the Vampire scene, and then dealing with a patch (remember what a lot of trouble the patch for the SFK1 beta version was). >_<

well i have the old copy of vh, but tbh i wasnt a fan of it (i didnt like shay becoming a vamp. not really a fan of vamps or were-creatures) so an updated versions not important to me.
as for changing sfk5 to widescreen… i would say no att. maybe at a later date… a sfk5 galaxy edition yes

Since these were commissions for VampYou.com, of course they had to have vampires – but neither Vampire Winter nor Vampire Halloween are canon to the overall SFK story. Shay’s not really a vampire! ^_^”

I like vampires well enough myself, I suppose, and the original vampires in SFK3 and 4 were my own ideas. But everything since then has had something to do with VampYou – even the concept for SFK5, actually! It was a way to put the “girls get turned into vampires” scene into context. ^_^”’

My thoughts here Galaxy, is this: do it all in wide screen do what you have left first then go back and upgrade what you’ve done and then release 🙂 you are doing an AWESOME job! don’t let anyone not even yourself tell you that it’s not enough! we the fans for the most part will wait for you to get it right to the point you fell your name can be on it. 🙂 you haven’t forgotten us, you have never just disappeared on us for years and years…. just get it done when you do and we’ll be here for it!!!! hugs hun!

That’s kind of how I’m leaning, to leave SFK:The Vampires alone until I get everything else done, and maybe not even patch it, but just do the widescreen version for the release of SFK5. I’m really looking forward to getting it all done this year, in any case. I’ve got so many ideas for SFK6, and the possible SFK:RPG (it’s rattling around in my head so much lately, at some point I’m going to have to do a little test/demo version or something)!

I think it’s pretty awesome that you make alternate scenes. Such as Vampire Winter, and this one. Seems to me that it’s nearly twice the workload for, potentially, only the normal content for a given customer, if they happen not to like the alternative.

This one is a bit of a slog because it’s a more complete overhaul for each version, but everything I’ve heard from people indicates there are very strong opinions both in favor of, and against futa-on-man scenes. I don’t want to keep excluding the pro-people, but I don’t want to lose the con-people either.

For Vampire Winter, and Vampire Halloween, and those products, it’s not as hard to make small modifications while keeping the overall scene the same. Then it mostly just turns into lots and lots of rendering time. For example, I thought about including two futanari modes, one for just Shay, and one for both of them, but I calculated that it would have taken me at least another 30 hours broken up over several days, which I couldn’t afford since I was trying to meet a specific deadline.

Phew. Sometimes prevaricating has its advantages: Didn’t get around to collect Vampire Winter earlier, so now I get the fully patched version straight away with no hassle 🙂
I think I preordered SFX 5 but when I asked the money in my bank account where they’d think they’d have more fun – with me or with Galaxy – they brazenly answered “With Galaxy surely”. Can’t really blame them of course, so I just went for the purchase+5 option.